The Reasons to This Book Elie Wiesel has many, many reasons for writing the journal Night. One of the reasons was to not go mad or was it to go mad? Did he really want to understand the nature of madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted into his life because of a madman? Elie wanted to know if it was to leave behind the legacy of words, of memories, to help prevent from even history repeating itself. “I don’t know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself…” these were Elie’s answers when people told him he survived to write the book but he was still not convinced. He wondered if the reason was to protect the meaning he set to paper the experience in which nothing had made any sense for him. Elie Wiesel had kept a written record so the human race would never forget what it was like in the concentration camps. He wanted the world t never forget.
Joseph Goebbels was in charge of Hitler's propaganda videos.
The Nazis hunted down the people who might comment against the propaganda, showed only what they wanted people to see, and severe punishments ware brought down upon those who opposed the propaganda.
Kristallnacht was the "Night of Broken Glass". It happened on November 9-10, 1938.
At the Wannsee Conference was General Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Muller, Adolf Eichmann, Roland Freisler, and many others. The Final Solution was the code name for the physical annihilation of all Jews.
The Victims Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
Jews were not the only people the Nazis targeted. They also targeted the Roma (Gypsies), Poles, people with disabilities, Soviet prisonersof war, Afro- Germans, Jehova's Witnesses, homosexuals, and people who opposed the Nazi party.
The Ghettos Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
The three types of ghettos are closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos.Closed ghettos were usually in Germany Poland and were used to crowd all the Jews into one small space. Open ghettos were located in Germany Poland and Germany-occupied Soviet Union, they were used to get the Jews into one gathering instead of having them all over the place. Destruction ghettos were used to deport or shoot off the Jewish population inside of them, they were located in the Soviet Union and Hungary.
The life in the ghettos were terrible, there were a lot of Jews in a really small spce therefore making living conditions bad.
The difference between labor camps and death camps are labor camps you would work where as death camps they would exterminate millions of Jews and other races every single day.
In the death camps there were ways that the Germans would get rid of the Jews, here are some ways they exterminated millions of people. They did it through gas chambers, multiple shootings, gas vans, and crematoriums.
The first to liberate the camps were the Soviet forces then all the other Allied forces began to move into Europe. Near the end of the war Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker, and 24 defendants were charged in the Nuremburg Trials. These 24 men represented the number of unspeakable war crimes they had committed.
"Following orders" was not a legitimate defense and was declared by the International Military Tribunal.
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Assignment 3: Images of Night
Hope
Hope False and scary Daring, loving, and caressing Like a storm blowing away all dreams and making them disappear like a magic trick A dark cloud covering your judgment Swimming In your head forever along the lines of insanity
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Kathleen C. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
The Reasons to This Book
Elie Wiesel has many, many reasons for writing the journal Night. One of the reasons was to not go mad or was it to go mad? Did he really want to understand the nature of madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted into his life because of a madman? Elie wanted to know if it was to leave behind the legacy of words, of memories, to help prevent from even history repeating itself. “I don’t know how I survived; I was weak, rather shy; I did nothing to save myself…” these were Elie’s answers when people told him he survived to write the book but he was still not convinced. He wondered if the reason was to protect the meaning he set to paper the experience in which nothing had made any sense for him. Elie Wiesel had kept a written record so the human race would never forget what it was like in the concentration camps. He wanted the world t never forget.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web SearchBackground Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
HYPERLINK "http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm" http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
Wannsee Conference
What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/" http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhi/bit/focus/kristallnacht
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
Who liberated the camps?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
HYPERLINK "http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
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Assignment 3: Images of Night
Hope
Hope
False and scary
Daring, loving, and caressing
Like a storm blowing away all dreams and making them disappear like a magic trick
A dark cloud covering your judgment
Swimming
In your head forever along the lines of insanity